Martin E. Green

Martin Edwin Green (3 June 1815-27 June 1863) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Martin Edwin Green was born in Fauquier County, Virginia on 3 June 1815, and his family later opened a sawmill in Missouri; his brother James S. Green would become a Democratic Party senator from the state. Martin E. Green judged the Lewis County Court and became a prominent Democrat, and he became a leading secessionist in the northeast of the state. He formed a cavalry regiment for the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861, and he fought at Athens, Lexington, Pea Ridge, Iuka, and Corinth, and he commanded a brigade during the Union siege of Vicksburg in 1863. Green was shot in the head by a sharpshooter on 27 June 1863 and killed instantly.